Eighth-grade students in New York City are just a few weeks away from taking the Test for Admission into Catholic High Schools (TACHS) and choosing the high schools they wish to attend next year.
Schools
St. Mel’s Academy Starts School Year By Adding New Fifth Grade Class
The start of the new school year for St. Mel’s Catholic Academy in Whitestone was not just the first day of studies but the continued expansion of academics with the addition of a new fifth-grade class.
Superintendent To Prioritize Teacher Salaries, Catholic Identity
The start of the school year also marks a new beginning for the Diocese of Brooklyn’s superintendent, who started his job on July 1 and is now overseeing the opening of classes. Deacon Kevin McCormack, the former principal of Xaverian High School in Bay Ridge, is now the person over- seeing the diocese’s 70 Catholic academies. Prior to becoming superintendent, he spent 37 years at Xaverian, first as a teacher of English and religion, then as principal.
Only In Print: Former St. Ephrem Classmates Graduate As Valedictorians
When it comes to being named valedictorians of their respective Catholic high school graduating classes, Allie Giordano and Victoria Ryan have a lot in common.
Online Academy Prompted By Pandemic Shuts Down
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Online Academy, the Diocese of Brooklyn’s only fully remote online school that offered an alternative during the pandemic, has closed.
Only In Print: Flag Day at ICCA-Astoria Honors Firefighter Lost in the Line of Duty, Veterans, Troops
The Flag Day at Immaculate Conception Catholic Academy in Astoria honored Firefighter Timothy Klein who died in the line of duty in April and a Navy veteran who served during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
‘Troike’ Summer Program Returns to Cathedral Prep with New Classes and Sports
The Father Troike Leadership Program returns this year, July 5-29, at the Cathedral Prep campus in Elmhurst, Queens. New this year is soccer, journalism and creative writing classes, and hot lunch in the cafeteria.
Catholic Schools Night Draws Huge Crowd To Honor Young Scholars and Watch Priests vs. Principals Game
Catholic Schools Night at the Brooklyn Cyclones game Tuesday evening, June 21, honored valedictorians and salutatorians from the Catholic academies and parish schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn. Also honored was Msgr. David Cassato, vicar of Catholic Schools, whose image is now a bobblehead.
Holy Cross Students Inspire Hope With Prayers They Wrote During COVID
“Ave Crux, Spes Unica ” (“Hail to the Cross, Our Only Hope”) is a small book, but filled with prayers, including contributions from Holy Cross High School (Flushing) students who wrote them in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
St. Francis of Assisi Introduces New Program of Skills Classes to Eighth Graders
When Olivia Mura started the school year at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Academy, she had no idea that learning to sew a button would be as much a part of the curriculum in her eighth-grade class as math and social studies.